Combined necktie-former and stick-pin lock.



F. 1. JAGE MANN & 1. F. BAZATA. COMBINED NECKTIE FORMER AND STICK PIN LOCK,

APPLICATION F|LE D MAR. 23; I917.-

Patented Jan. 22, 1918.

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FBEDERICKJ. JAGEMANN AND JOSEPH F. BAZA'I'A, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GOMBINED NECKTIE-FORMEB, AND STICK-PIN LOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. March 23, 1917. Serial No. 156,859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK J. JAGE- MANN and JOSEPH F. BAZATA, citizens of the United States, and residents of the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of New Yorlnliaveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Necktie-Formers and Stick-Pin Locks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for maintaining the shape of neckties in use and for preventing withdrawal of scarf pins, and our improvements comprehend the production of a combination device including both the stated characteristics.

Ties or scarfs of the four-in-hand variety, when new, fairly well retain the fullness below the knot which presents the desired pleasing effect, but after a brief period, it is found that the material ofa scarf becomes limp and will not unaided retain the flowing fullness of which it was previously susceptible.

Therefore we have devised a former consisting of a strip of stifi material to be engaged in the tie at the rear surface thereof, below the knot, and of suitable shape to fill out the material of the tie into a desired external form.

The forming device may be retained in a desired location relatively to the tie material by means of the usual scarf pin, which, penetrating the scarf or tie, may be suitably engaged with said forming device. The engagement between the scarf pin and forming device may also have an additional function wherein the forming device, by reason of its engagement with the scarf pin, serves to retain the latter in its inserted position in the scarf or tie, to prevent accidental or other removal of the pin.

This latter function may be served as by providing a frictional hold between the forming device and the pin. For example, the forming device may be composed of two pivotal parts or wings with opposed camlike surfaces, between which the pin may be entered and held against retraction, suitable releasing means also heing provided.

Other features and advantages of our improvementwill hereinafter appear.

In the drawing lFi e l is a view of a tie or sf, re

versed, showing in position thereon our improved former device and pin holder.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the tie, showing a top plan view of the former and holder; and

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the device, partly in section.

In said figures the numeral 1 indicates a tie or scarf, into which is fitted a scarf pin 2 in the usual manner.

Our former device, in the example thereof herein 7 represented, consists of the two curved portions 3, 4, arranged in opposed relation and each separately pivoted in a link which consists of the spaced, parallel plates,

5, 6, as by pivots 7, 8.

ing entrance or guide for a pin, in the direction of the entry of the latter in passing between the portions 3, 4, to be gripped thereby; and said portions 3, 4, also have lugs or thumb pieces 10, whereby they may be separated for release of an engaged pin.

Springs, as 11, may be employed to' normally tensionally hold the portions 3, 4, in alinement, against the stops 12, said springs being here shown as coiled about the pivots 7, 8.

Thus, normally the opposed cam surfaces of the portions 3, 4, are tensionally drawn together, so that they may impinge upon opposite sides of an interposed pin, which, when inserted, spreads them against that tension, to an extent suflicient to receive the bulk represented by the thickness of said pin. The cam surfaces will therefore impinge upon the pin and will tend to grip it the more securely as force is exerted in an attempt to withdraw the pin from its inserted position.

Pressure applied upon the lugs 10, how ever, to draw them together against the spring pressure aforesaid, will serve to separate the cam surfaces, to release the pin, when it can conveniently be withdrawn.

The two part former, in its operative condition, may, as in the example shown, have a tie forming or shaping surface, as 13, which is of approximately crescentcontour, whose function is to give the desired distended conformation to the tie material.

The horns 14 of former may engage Patented d an. 22, t tfi.

with the material of the tie, although they need not be secured thereto.

Variations may be resorted to within the" ing a forming device of stifi material min;

only against the reverse side of a necktie, over the entire widthof the flowing portion thereof, just below the knot, and means for securingsaid forming device to the necktie.

2. Means for shaping the display portion of four-in handtneckties in service, comprising a forming device of stifl material to lie againstthe reverse side ofa necktie over the; entire width" of the flowing portion thereof, below the knot, said forming device having stick pin engaging means.

,3. Means for shaping thedispla'ywpon tion of four-in'hand neckti'es in service, comprising. a forming device of stiff mate rial to lie against the reverse side of a necktie over the entire width of the flowing portion thereof, below the knot, said forming a device having. releasably' engaging means to secure a stick pin against unintentional withdrawal. r

4. Means for shaping the display portion l of four-inhand neckties in service, co1npr1sing a pair of opposed pivotal members, and tensional means to normally draw said members together to grip an interposed stick pin, said pivotal members arranged to lie 1 against the reverse side of a necktie over the entire width of the flowing portion thereof, below the knot.

5. In a combined necktie former and stick pin. retaining device, the combination of a pair of pivotal members having opposed cam surfaces, and arranged to lie against the reverse side of a four-in-l'iand necktie in service over the entire width of the flowing portion thereof, below the knot, ten sional means to draw said cam surfaces together to grip and hold an interposed stick pin, and means for separating said can) surfaces, to release the stick pin.

Signed at the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York, this 21st day of March, A. D. 1917.

FRED. J. JAGEMANN.

JOS. F. BAZATA.

Witnesses:

F. W. BARKER, L. MosKowrrz.

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